I’ve never re-posted someone else writing here before but this is a special occasion—Bitcoin is now worth over $1,000 each. Is it a bubble? Probably, but that’s besides the point. The rapid rise in price has gone alongside a growing rate of acceptance. Bitcoin seems poised to dramatically change the way we interact with money.

Communist rebels taking over huge swaths of land in India may sound like a forgotten chapter of the Cold War, but it’s not. Communist militias are now active in 20 of India’s 28 states, control hundreds of small villages and the government describes the Maoist/Naxalite insurgency as the biggest internal security threat the nation has